Im-Patience is a Non-Virtue

Sometimes we really fly too fast 
to actually see the true picture.   
Often, I should have counted to ten   
before I spewed out my stricture. 

Sometimes that pause was all that it took 
to completely change my perspective;   
that let me know the plan is okay   
and in no way truly defective.   

If we show impatience in our lives 
how can we, in truth, claim virtue?   
In most of the things you do daily   
to pause for a bit won’t hurt you.   

Few question that patience is indeed   
a most desirable quality. 
It should be applied with fairness in 
times of seriousness and frivolity.   

With poetry, it’s the  same way. 
If I do not make my Muse speed   
she rewards me with a smoother rhyme 
that for most is easier to read.   

The difference in the time it takes 
to fashion a diamond from coal 
is worth all the time it requires
if a true gem is your final goal.